When system cheat becomes rampant!

The Alliance Talent Archives Bureau was located in the center of the mainland, thousands of kilometers away from Xiang Beifei's home, and even with Elder Luo's method of traversing space, it took over half an hour.

Such a method of travel was extremely taxing, and those with insufficient cultivation couldn't last long at all. However, for Elder Luo, it was merely a matter of snacking on a few more melon seeds.

To prevent complications, Elder Luo dropped Xiang Beifei off at his home.

"Be careful in whatever you do, and if necessary, use me as a shield, or shift the blame to me, no problem. If you can find that path and break the status quo, I can take any hit for you," Elder Luo said.

Even he didn't understand why he had such faith in this kid. Technically, the kid was only at the Meridian Opening stage, a level of cultivation that wasn't particularly impressive in the Alliance.

But he was willing to believe.

Just like when Xiang Beifei enrolled, he earned his place with a single punch.

He too hoped that Xiang Beifei could punch open a path that he himself had been searching for his entire life but could never find.

"I understand," Xiang Beifei nodded.

But he wouldn't use Elder Luo as a shield.

"Then I'm heading back to the school," said Elder Luo.

"Elder Luo, take care," replied Xiang Beifei.

Both seemed to have forgotten something.

About ten minutes later, the phone rang—

"Hello, hello, hello! Luo Yunxian! I've found a way to improve spiritual power!"

"Exactly, exactly, so preoccupied with chit-chat that I totally forgot about it!"

Elder Luo dashed back quickly.

Both were the carefree type, living life with an understanding and easygoing nature. They could be somber one moment and turn the page the next, brushing off heavy topics with ease.

After all, they were people full of hope for life, always finding joy amidst despair.

"How exactly did you manage to do it?" Elder Luo asked expectantly.

"I incorporated Professor Guo's Counterattack Technique!" Xiang Beifei said.

"Guo's Counterattack Technique?" Elder Luo was a bit puzzled, "His thing can work with my spiritual power?" Your journey continues on My Virtual Library Empire

Professor Guo and Elder Luo had been lifelong friends. They were well aware of each other's secrets and were comfortable with each other. Elder Luo also knew about Guo's Cultivation Technique very well.

It's just that he had never attempted to try it.

"You haven't learned his Counterattack Technique?" asked Xiang Beifei.

"Eh... well... my defenses are actually pretty strong."

He was being modest.

His defense relied entirely on point allocation, pouring points straight into defense, which basically made him invulnerable.

"His Counterattack Technique is quite interesting. I just discovered that your techniques can complement each other. As long as the Counterattack Technique is properly utilized, it can completely shield the Perception of spiritual power. Even more, it could potentially use the Counterattack Technique to cause the caster of the spiritual power to experience backlash!"

Xiang Beifei still didn't have the strength to cause Elder Luo backlash, but he believed that with someone weaker in spiritual power, it was definitely possible.

Elder Luo's eyes lit up: "Doesn't that mean you have also improved Guo's Counterattack Technique?"

"Yes, pretty much." Xiang Beifei hadn't seen Professor Guo's system interface, so he couldn't be certain, but he planned to give it a try next time.

"Then I need to study it well!"

Elder Luo immediately allocated all his system points to his comprehension ability and began learning Guo's Cultivation Technique.

He was very familiar with Guo. After all, Guo had taught him the technique, only Elder Luo had never bothered to learn it. Mastering the technique wasn't too difficult, and he quickly managed to grasp the "Counterattack" technique.

"Then, you just need to apply this special Counterattack Technique, stacking your spiritual power on top of it," Xiang Beifei demonstrated to Elder Luo.

Using "Counterattack" with spiritual power, it caused an instantaneous rebound of the spiritual power attack, simulating a detailed scenario.

"You could try countering my spiritual power. I'll attack you with spiritual power, and you counter me, but please go easy! I can't take it!" Xiang Beifei warned seriously.

"Don't worry, I'll control myself as much as I can!"

Elder Luo made a slight adjustment to his system points, then kept his cultivation at the early stage of Meridian Opening to avoid knocking out Xiang Beifei later on.

Xiang Beifei's spiritual power immediately transformed into a sharp attack, rushing towards Elder Luo!

Elder Luo watched intently, his spiritual power quickly converging to meet Xiang Beifei's, weakening it by a notch and immediately initiating the Counterattack Technique in hopes of diverting the path of Xiang Beifei's spiritual power.

However—

With a "swoosh"! Elder Luo's expression changed slightly, as he found that after stacking the Counterattack on his spiritual power, he was unable to rebuff Xiang Beifei's spiritual power as suggested; instead, Xiang Beifei's attack made his own spiritual power unstable!

Ding!

Elder Luo, not paying attention, was hit by Xiang Beifei's spiritual power, and his whole head buzzed!

"Sorry! Sorry! My mistake," Xiang Beifei hurriedly said.

Elder Luo touched his forehead, trying to remain calm, and spoke, "Let's do it again."

He had only lowered the power of his spiritual power just now to avoid injuring Xiang Beifei; this time, he raised his realm to the late stage of Meridian Opening.

Xiang Beifei continued to unleash spiritual power attacks, and Elder Luo tried to counterattack again—

Ding!

"Sorry! Sorry!"

"It's fine! Let's do it again!"

Ding!

…

Ding!

…

"No more, no more! Give me a break to catch my breath!"

Elder Luo felt his head was buzzing from the relentless "dings"!

It was like someone was constantly hammering his head, nearly driving him mad!

He had even raised his spiritual defense to the early stages of God Refining.

However, he found that he still grossly underestimated Xiang Beifei's spiritual attacks. Somehow, he just couldn't get a handle on it. The moment he added counterforce to his spiritual power, it was immediately dispersed by Xiang Beifei's spiritual power.

It was no longer a matter of cultivation level; he discovered that whenever he added the counterforce, it made his own spiritual power incredibly fragile, utterly incapable of withstanding the impact!

Elder Luo kept rubbing his temples, unable to help but ask, "This method is too difficult. Have you been practicing for a long time?"

"Oh, no. When you were searching through the building earlier, you startled me. I had a sudden inspiration and just gave it a try; turned out it's quite effective," Xiang Beifei replied.

Elder Luo's eyes widened in disbelief!

A sudden inspiration?

Just gave it a try!

"So... so you succeeded on your first attempt?"

"Yes, very simple! But it's strange... why can't you get it, Elder?" Xiang Beifei said, puzzled.

Elder Luo: "..."

His face turned red!

Red all the way to his ears!

Even with his thick skin, he felt guilty at that moment.

An apprentice telling his master, you can't even learn such a simple thing!

Normally, it would be the master, frustrated and disappointed, who would say this to an apprentice. But now, it seemed... it seemed to have been reversed!

He felt belittled by his apprentice!

It's all over! After all, he was supposed to be the master. If he couldn't learn what his apprentice was teaching today, his role as a master would end disgracefully!

"Cough cough cough! I got distracted just now, let's do it again."

Elder Luo just couldn't believe it. Xiang Beifei had an epiphany and managed to learn it, while he had a mountain-shaking, earth-shattering inspiration and still couldn't learn it?

[Perception ability: 9999]

He had to learn it!

Ding!

Ding!

Ding!

…

Half an hour later, Elder Luo's mind was filled with incessant dings, and he was completely baffled.

He still couldn't learn it!

"As a master, am I too much of a failure?"

Elder Luo could no longer maintain his composure!